[Xymon] xymon replacement in python

[Josh Luthman]

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 3:47 PM Scot Kreienkamp <
Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

> We have 1 server, 685 clients, 722 hosts for network tests, 1144 total
> tests currently, with a cycle time of 60 seconds.  XymonD is receiving
> around 120 messages per second.  Display is running as its own dedicated
> server and network tests are running on a second dedicated server.
>
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> Hello
>
> I am a big fan of xymon, and I was sad of its current maintainer status.
> I could have steped as maintainer of it, but the current state of the C
> code let me fear to lack enough time to masterize it.
> It will take days just to fix all string management warnings reported by
> gcc.
> I tryed to fix some issues and the result could be seen at
> https://github.com/xython-monitoring/xymon
>
> But I have asked myself, the protocol behing xymon is simple, why not
> trying to do it in python ?
> My personnal needs is a little subset of what xymon support, so I started
> to emulate xymon in python as a PoC just to see how long it will be.
> In a few hours I was able to emulate basic parts and I was more confident
> to step further.
>
> So I decided to publish my current code, but I fear to publish something
> too early, I pray that some people could find it usefull.
>
> I tried to document at maximum, how to test it, but I am very bad at it.
> You can find the current result at
> https://github.com/xython-monitoring/xython
>
> I started this some month ago and the milestones are already obsolete, I
> will update them.
>
> But before progressing farther, I have still some interogation on how to
> handle some part.
> It will be kind if some people share some informations about how they use
> xymon.
> I am very interested about:
> - number of clients (what is the greatest number of clients possible ?)
> - number of hosts ? messages per second ?
> - number of network tests
>
> Thanks
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